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In 2000, Nick released 'The Secret Life of the Love Song,' a compilation of two spoken-word lectures on religion, literature and other themes. The edition from Ellipsis London was comprised of an audio recording of the lectures, along with a book of photos and liner notes.
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Nick Cave has covered several old-style artists: Leonard Cohen, the Beatles (twice), Roy Orbison and Johnny Cash.
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Nick sang his song
Into My Arms at the lead singer of INXS',
Michael Hutchence, funeral.
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He fell in love with fashion stylist Viviane Carneiro at a consert in Brazil in 1989. Their son, Luke, was born in 1991. The couple broke up, but are still good friends.
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Mick Harvey, Cave's highschool friend, has worked musicaly with him for more than 26 years.
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Cave was a problematic, attention-seeking child. He was absent from sports and was placed in special classes in the art block.
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Nick is facinated by the Goth sub culture, and says that they are the most enduring and brave of the subcultures.
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Ian Johnston wrote Nick Caves biography in 1995.
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In 2005 he recieved an AFI Award for Best Original Music Score for The Proposition.
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In the time span 1989- 2001 Nick has written 4 books; And the Ass Saw the Angel (1989) King Ink (1988), King Ink II (1997) and Complete Lyrics (2001).
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He released the album 3CD album B-Sides & Rarities in 2005.
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His song
Red Right Hand has been used in many productions such as the movies
Scream, Scream 2, scream 3, Dumb and Dumber, and the TV series
X-Files.
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Cave wrote an introduction for the Gospel of Mark in the Pockets Canon Bible Series.
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Nick's mother was a librarian, and his father worked as a teacher and lecturer in English.
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Cave did a duet with
Johnny Cash on the
Hank Williams song
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, released on Cash' s 2002 album
American IV: The Man Comes Around
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Johnny Cash covered Cave's song
The Mercy Seat on his album
American III: Solitary Man (2000).
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He released the album No More Shall We Part in 2001.
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The song,
Where the Wild Roses Grow, that he did with fellow Australian
Kylie Minouge won three ARIA Awards.
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Nick Caves' music is used in movies such as Wings of Desire, Until the End of the World, Faraway ... So Close and Soul of a Man.
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His 1984 debut novel is called And the Ass Saw the Angel.
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Nick studied painting at the Caulfield Institute of Technology, but dropped out to pursue a career in music.
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His father was killed in a car accident in 1978.
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Nick was raised as an Anglican, and he used to sing in the boys choir at Wangaratta Cathedral when he was a boy.
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He sang the duet
Where the Wild Roses Grow with
Kylie Minogue, in 1995.